No injuries were reported but a fire late Thursday night destroyed a vacant auto dealership on Fremont Street.
Katelyn Newberg
Katelyn Newberg began covering the courts and legal affairs for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in October 2021. Following two internships, she joined the newspaper staff in 2018 as a breaking news reporter. She is a native of central Florida and a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.
The calls of “shots fired” over radios Thursday night were just part of a drill, but the officers who heard them treated the exercise as a life-and-death matter.
A man covered in blood climbed into a stranger’s car Wednesday afternoon after being stabbed in the neck at a southeast Las Vegas Valley park, police said.
The victim told officers she was abducted, beaten and robbed by the four, who then phoned her boyfriend and attempted to extort money.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office said two of its deputies and a sergeant were placed on administrative leave after police were twice called to a home where two people were forcibly held in filthy conditions , but they did not help the pair.